Live Literature
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-50384-0 (ISBN)
This ground-breaking book explores the phenomenal growth of live literature in the digitalizing 21st century. Wiles asks why literary events appeal and matter to people, and how they can transform the ways in which fiction is received and valued. Readers are immersed in the experience of two contrasting events: a major literary festival and an intimate LGBTQ+ salon. Evocative scenes and observations are interwoven with sharp critical analysis and entertaining conversations with well-known author-performers, reader-audiences, producers, critics, and booksellers. Wiles's experiential literary ethnography represents an innovative and vital contribution, not just to literary research, but to research into the value of cultural experience across art forms. This book probes intersections between readers and audiences, writers and performers, texts and events, bodies and memories, and curation and reception. It addresses key literary debates from cultural appropriation to diversity in publishing, the effects of social media, and the quest for authenticity. It will engage a broad audience, from academics and producers to writers and audiences.
Ellen Wiles is an academic whose research practice combines anthropology and literary studies. In 2015, she published her first academic monograph with Columbia University Press, Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts: Literary Life in Myanmar under Censorship and in Transition. In addition to her research, she is a published author, most recently of the novel The Invisible Crowd (HarperCollins, 2017). This debut novel was awarded the Victor Turner Prize in ethnographic writing in 2018 and was named a Guardian book of the year. Her second novel, as yet untitled, is under contract with HarperCollins and due to publish in 2020. Wiles is also the founder and creative director of Ark , a live literature event producer that has worked, most recently, with the British Library.
Chapter 1: Speaking of Writing and Writing of Speaking: What, where, how, why.- Chapter 2: Hay Festival: The remote Welsh field that stages the global publishing industry.- Chapter 3: Polari Salon: The revival of an Enlightenment tradition with an activist twist.- Chapter 4: Experiential Literary Ethnography: A creative approach to revealing cultural value.- Chapter 5: Summing Up the Story: patterns, divergences, insights, ideas.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology |
| Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 380 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 521 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | contemporary literary culture • ehnography • ethnographic • Literary Culture • literary events • literary festival • literary happenings • literary salon • performance studies • Storytelling • The Moth |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-50384-4 / 3030503844 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-50384-0 / 9783030503840 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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